[alt.sources] Anyone heard of 'SoftSwitch'?

rst@lucifer.UUCP (Richard Thombs) (06/24/91)

Has anybody heard of a product called 'SoftSwitch'? It's an American
product and supposedly converts between a number of difference mail formats.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

				Richard
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Richard Thombs					      Lucas Powertrain Systems,
Mail:  rst@eg.lucasauto.co.uk			      Phoenix Way,
Phone: +44 285 657981 x233			      Cirencester, GL7 1QG,
Fax:   +44 285 658258 (G3)			      England.

coates@uc780.umd.edu (06/29/91)

In a previous article, rst@lucifer.UUCP (Richard Thombs) wrote:
>Has anybody heard of a product called 'SoftSwitch'? It's an American
>product and supposedly converts between a number of difference mail formats.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>				Richard
>-- 
>Richard Thombs					      Lucas Powertrain Systems,
>Mail:  rst@eg.lucasauto.co.uk			      Phoenix Way,
>Phone: +44 285 657981 x233			      Cirencester, GL7 1QG,
>Fax:   +44 285 658258 (G3)			      England.

Softswitch is a gateway product which runs on an IBM mini or mainframe. It is
a gateway which moves mail or documents from and to IBM systems such as DISOSS
and LAN's with gateways to Softswitch central running on an IBM (IBM compatible)
host It is a part of SNADS (SNA distributed somthing or other). SNADS main 
thing is that documents and mail are stored and forwarded, wheras in regular
SNA the orientation is toward connctions beween physical units. 

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